开玩笑(kāi wán xiào): to play a joke
to play a joke
Character breakdown
3 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 开玩笑 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Example sentences
How 开玩笑 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
你在开玩笑吗？
nǐ zài kāi wán xiào ma
Are you kidding?
你一定是开玩笑！
nǐ yī dìng shì kāi wán xiào
You must be joking!
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